Brief Life History of Geneva Adella
When Geneva Adella Blaisdell was born in March 1869, in Mercer, Somerset, Maine, United States, her father, William Blaisdell, was 20 and her mother, Alice M Gray, was 16. She married Edwin Stanton Whitaker on 3 March 1888, in Detroit, Somerset, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Stockton Springs, Waldo, Maine, United States in 1900 and Troy, Waldo, Maine, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1934, at the age of 65, and was buried in Pittsfield Village Cemetery, Pittsfield, Somerset, Maine, United States.
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- Jane Blaisdell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Geneva A. Blaisdell, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
- Geneva Adella Blaisdell Whitaker, "Find a Grave Index"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English (Cumbria and Lancashire): habitational name from a place inthe Lake District named Blaisdell, from the Old Norse bynameBlesi (from blesi ‘blaze, white spot’), or from thesame word used in the sense of a white spot on a hillside, + Old Norsedalr ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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